Columbus, GA-AL · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
95.2%
8,299 votes · D+90.8
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 92.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
75.5%
40,305 votes · R+51.7
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · 65.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
71,488votes
53.9% of the vote · D+9.0
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 70,832 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
62,637votes
46.6% of the vote · D+6.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 59,580 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+105.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+80.6 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +104.7 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+56.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+33.5 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +28.5 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Columbus, GA-AL · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Columbus, GA-AL, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Columbus, GA-AL
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
172,685
2018
206,615
2020
223,696
2022
230,711
2024
246,314
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−111 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −19,685 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Columbus, GA-AL in Columbus, GA-AL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+3,690
2012
+3,161
2013
+1,917
2014
−5,484
2015
−5,562
2016
−6,163
2017
−4,731
2018
+795
2019
+1,300
2021
−2,835
2022
−3,355
2023
−1,367
2024
−940
2025
−111
The Columbus metro straddles the Georgia-Alabama border and centers on one of the Army's largest installations, giving it an unusually high share of active-duty and veteran households that consistently shapes turnout patterns on both sides of the state line.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 51.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.1 points.
A population of 325,615, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,450 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Macon-Bibb County, GA and Memphis, TN-MS-AR.
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In 2024, Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia voted Democratic by 6.1 points (D+6.1), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 134,284 votes cast, 70,832 went Democratic and 62,637 went Republican.
When did Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia?
Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia has a population of 325,615 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia?
Median household income in Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia is $60,450 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $63,999.
What is the political history of Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Columbus, GA-AL, Georgia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 28 went Democratic and 5 went Republican.
